Larry D. Thompson is the former Deputy U.S. Attorney General (2001-2003), the second highest ranking position in the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also served as Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at PepsiCo, Inc., and as the John A. Sibley Chair of Corporate and Business Law at the University of Georgia School of Law.

In 2002, during Thompson's tenure as Deputy Attorney General, Attorney General John Ashcroft named him to lead the Department of Justice's National Security Coordination Council. Also in 2002, President George W. Bush named Thompson to head the government-wide Corporate Fraud Task Force. In 2017, he was appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice as the Independent Corporate Compliance Monitor and Auditor for Volkswagen AG. Thompson holds a BA from Culver-Stockton College, a MA from Michigan State University, and a law degree from the University of Michigan. He lives in Georgia.